WIST Quotations

Pratchett, Terry -- Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

Dave — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:03:50 +0000

You couldn’t put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place where the inevitable just went and waited.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

Nansen, Fridtjof -- Quoted in Listener (14 Dec 1939)

Dave — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:53:12 +0000

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian
Quoted in Listener (14 Dec 1939)

Keynes, John Maynard -- A Tract on Monetary Reform, ch. 3 (1923)

Dave — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:36:23 +0000

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) English economist
A Tract on Monetary Reform, ch. 3 (1923)